Tim Ferriss

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Timothy Ferriss, nominated as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People of 2007″ is an angel investor (StumbleUpon, Digg, Twitter, etc.) and author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been sold into 35 languages.

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Tim has been featured by more than 100 media outlets – including The New York Times, The Economist, TIME, Forbes, Fortune, CNN, and CBS – and has been a popular guest lecturer at Princeton University since 2003, where he presents entrepreneurship as a tool for ideal lifestyle design and world change.

He is also an active education reformer and has architected experimental social media campaigns such as LitLiberation to out-fundraise traditional media figures like Stephen Colbert 3-to-1 at zero cost, building schools overseas and financing more than 25,000 US students in the process. He is on the advisory board of DonorsChoose.org, an educational non-profit and winner at Fast Company’s 2008 Social Capitalist Awards.

Tim has been invited to speak at some of the world’s most innovative organizations, including Google, MIT, Harvard Business School, Nike, PayPal, Facebook, The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Microsoft, Ask.com, Nielsen, Princeton University, the Wharton School, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has also been invited to speak and keynote at world-renowned technology summits including EG, FOO Camp, E-Tech, Supernova, LeWeb, and the Web 2.0 Exposition, where he shared the stage with figures like Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board of Google, and Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.

Tim has amassed a diverse (and certainly odd) roster of experiences:

  • Princeton University guest lecturer in High-Tech Entrepreneurship and Electrical Engineering
  • Finance and Entrepreneurship advisor at Singularity University at NASA Ames, co-founded by Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil.
  • First American in history to hold a Guinness World Record in tango
  • Speaker of 5 languages (6 if he’s reactivating something previously studied)
  • National Chinese kickboxing champion
  • Horseback archer (yabusame) in Nikko, Japan
  • 2009 Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute
  • Political asylum researcher
  • MTV breakdancer in Taiwan
  • Hurling competitor in Ireland
  • Wired Magazine’s “Greatest Self-Promoter of 2008″
  • Actor on hit TV series in mainland China and Hong Kong (“Human Cargo”)

Tim received his BA from Princeton University in 2000, where he studied in the Neuroscience and East Asian Studies departments. He developed his nonfiction writing with Pulitzer Prize winner John McPhee and formed his life philosophies under Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe. He is 32 years old, and The 4-Hour Workweek is his first book.

Interview with Tim Ferriss

RISE Episode #137

Learn How Tim Ferriss Created An International Sensation For Less Than $10,000 & How He Plans On Doing It Again

Click Here If You Prefer Audio Only This is one of those interviews that makes me giddy like a little school boy. Why? For one thing, Tim Ferriss is a personal hero of mine. I read his first book (and sensation) The 4-Hour Workweek right when it came out in 2007 and was immediately hooked on how Tim thinks (hint: differently). Second, Tim is an incredible marketer who taps into creativity and does things smarter, faster, cheaper, and there are zillions of takeaways from it that might change your thinking. Finally, he is freaking hard to get for an interview as he doesn’t do a ton of media. What does this all add up to? A firestorm of awesome in this interview (or something like that). Plus, spoiler alert, there is an EXCLUSIVE (literal) look at Tim’s new book (just announced!): The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman (awesome title!) (Amazon link). In this interview, I pick Tim’s brain on: The shift from the 4-Hour Workweek to the 4-Hour Body. Why did he decide to go this route from a business, marketing, and personal perspective? The business behind his books. How has his perspective on marketing and promoting changed since the first book became an international phenomenon? How he spent less than $10,000 and successfully took the 4-Hour Workweek to the New York Times Best Seller List. The best approach for forming genuine relationships with bloggers. The difference between hard selling and soft… Read More

   
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